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Question of the Day: Will you be subscribing to the new Disney+ R49 streaming package?
I wants a BrontoByte HD!!! NOW!!!
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feo
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Sounds like a type of dinosaur..
supersunbird
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feo said:
Yep, very big and with lots of sharp teeth
feo
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supersunbird said:
What other types of dinosaurs do you get?
to sum up...
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte -
· 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte
· 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte -
· 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte
· 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte
supersunbird
Honorary Master
I want a 2 brontobyte T-Rex 20 million rpm harddrive, those raptors are way to slow.
feo
Honorary Master
Hmmm raptors and brontobytes...too much dinosaur talk goin on here.
Darth Garth
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The human brain contains about 50 billion to 200 billion neurons, each of which interfaces with 1,000 to 100,000 other neurons through 100 trillion (10 ^14) to 10 quadrillion (10^16) synaptic junctions.
Each synapse possesses a variable firing threshold which is reduced as the neuron is repeatedly activated.
If we assume that the firing threshold at each synapse can assume 256 distinguishable levels, and if we suppose that there are 20,000 shared synapses per neuron (10,000 per neuron), then the total information storage capacity of the synapses in the cortex would be of the order of 500 to 1,000 terabytes.
(Of course, if the brain's storage of information takes place at a molecular level, then I would be afraid to hazard a guess regarding how many bytes can be stored in the brain.
One estimate has placed it at about 3.6 X 10^19 bytes.
Each synapse possesses a variable firing threshold which is reduced as the neuron is repeatedly activated.
If we assume that the firing threshold at each synapse can assume 256 distinguishable levels, and if we suppose that there are 20,000 shared synapses per neuron (10,000 per neuron), then the total information storage capacity of the synapses in the cortex would be of the order of 500 to 1,000 terabytes.
(Of course, if the brain's storage of information takes place at a molecular level, then I would be afraid to hazard a guess regarding how many bytes can be stored in the brain.
One estimate has placed it at about 3.6 X 10^19 bytes.
feo
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So tibby.dude, are our brains SATA or IDE?
Darth Garth
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feo said:
SATA obviously with NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
.For example your retina contains nearly 130 million photo receptors yet the optic nerve to your brain contains only 1.2 million nerve fibres ... this discrepency means that rather substantial image pre-processing occurs in your retina before the image signal is sent to your brain to reduce the load on the "bus" so to say
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supersunbird
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I want to upgrade to SLeye...